Essays on Prenatal Screening

Prenatal Testing and Screening

Prenatal testing and screening have raised the number of ethical issues related to diagnostic testing in relation to special circumstances of pregnancy. The concerns related to the diagnostic testing involve greater ethical concerns for the parents with disabilities that need to be effectively addressed. It is debated that the prenatal diagnosis in contemporary society has enhanced the testing process to make right decisions about the pregnancy. However, there are number of concerns that evolve within our society concerning the cultural, religious and other social pressures. In the case of people with disabilities it is argued that the people often ...

The dream of every expectant mother is to give birth to a healthy baby when the nine months elapse. However, the culture of uncertainty among expectant mothers has engulfed their thoughts of the possibility of giving birth to children with disabilities. As a result, they have turned to clinics for prenatal screening with a hope of getting a clean bill of health from medical practitioners about their current situation. All these efforts are not in vain in their minds as long as they are assured their babies will not have Down’s syndrome. These frantic efforts paintan image of ...

In this paper I will analyze the relevant readings I have completed on the subject. Moreover, I will offer the relevant reasons to justify and prove my position. Eventually, I will present the possible arguments against my point of view. First of all, Rebecca Kukla and Katherine Wayne offer a profound article on the prenatal testing. This article is unbiased and presents both positive and negative dimensions of such testing. Therefore, it is stated in the article that pre-natal tests often lead to abortions as long as parents are eager to have a “designer child”, adjusted to their own ...